The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-05
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
Personal AND POLITICAL

fairs treaty.
THE President has accepted an invita-
tion to visit Kansas City.
1t is Announced that John Taylor, presi-
dent Of the Mormon Church died on the
evening of the 25th.
MILE. VIOLA, a four-horse equestrienne
of BarTett's circus, fell from her horse at
Wohpeton, Oak, on the 25th, and sustained
serious injuries. il is said, being upbraid-
ed for carclessnes3 by the manager, she
t5oS poison. She is reported dead.
GENERAL J. N. CoIELY, editor and pro-
prietor Of the Toledo (O.) Commercial, died
on the 25th of heart and lung trouble. He
was native Of Perry County, O. He was
bred practical printer and Rfterward
adopted the law; entered the army in
rutherford 3. Hayes regiment, the
Tweuty-third Ohio, rose to be Colonel, and
was brevettsd rigadier-General for gall
liant service on the field.
THE wife of Wilson Barrett, the actor,
died on the 27th.
JosEPH +. SMITH, nephew Of the prophet
Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, win
probably succeed John Taylor as president
of tE Mormon Church, but the question Of
succession viii not be settled for several
montl yet.
DIR. THOMAS L. CRUz, who about ten
years ago was house surgeon OF Belleville
(N. " hospital, is now an inmate of the
insane pavilion of that institution from
excessive use Of opium. He is between
thirty.6v and forty wears of age,
DIR. MCGLYNN is out in an article on 'fthe
Old sud New Nothingism" In the
North american Rerieic.
DN the 9th Elibu T.. Jackson was nomi-
mated for Governor of Maryland by the
Democratic convention.
III is claimed the Crown Prince of Ger
many is improving.
+. q. MCAlLLEN has been appointed re-
ceiver Of the United Carbon Companies,
and this marks the collapse of the combi-
nation.
TIE Porte has dismissed the Turkish re-
serves which have for some time past been
held in readiness to answer the demands
of an emergency.
AMONG the passengers who sailed from
New Y York for Europe on the steamer Ger
manic on the 2Ith was Governor John s.
MurInaduke, of Missouri
TURKEY has decided to reopen nego-
tiations with England for the settlement
of the Egyptian question. The object Of
the Porte is that the negotiations shall
proceed without the other powers being
consulted.
SENATOR SHERMAN got his Endorsement
from the Ohio Republicans at the State
convention without opposition.
GENERAL BOULANGER wants to fight
duel with NJ. Ferry.
AhAAiEA nobtGLlAeS EGHIGnGu the baggage
of Congressman Collins and accompany
ing friends at Dublin on the 2Sth. The
Americans were suspected" of being
dynamiters.
RUSSIA is niassmg troops along the Az
CHAN frontier, and the opinion obtains that
she Intends to swoop down on Herat and
Cahal when an opportune moment arrives.
+. /. GREEN, OF chihuahua, Mex, was
married at 81. Louis. on the 2Sth, to Miss
MpN.nnn nf IogFOn hpr. of Nc1
Folks"
JuuN II, GLEASON, OF West Troy, N. Y,
has been debarred from practice before the
Interior Departments.
EtEv. JOSEPH PARKER, of the London City
Temple, being about Go leave for America,
where he viii deliver a culogy of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, made farewell adj
dress to his congregation en- the 2Sth.
GOVERNOR KNOTT OF Kentucky on the
2Sth ordered Adiutant-G General Costleman
60 get in readiness fifty soldiers to 20 to
Bell County to preserve order. The sheriff
OF that county was killed on the 25th, and
war has been threatening since.
MORE than 13O members of the British
Parliament, including eight ministers,
have signed memorial addressed 70 Pres
ident Cleveland and the United States
Congress in favor of the settlement of in
ternationgl disputes by arbitration.
JUDGE A. +. COLE OF the Rowan (Ky.)
Circuit Court made formal application, on
the 2Sth, for troops TO protect his court,
which convenes on August =. Judge Cole
and others feel certain their will be blood
shed unless troops are at hand. Friends OF
Craig TOlliver are already collecting in the
neighborhood.
TIE Secretary OF State has received a
dispatch from Consul-Genernl Phelan at
HLiifax. n. s., saying that he is investi-
eating the recent seizures Of American
vessels in Canadian waters, and that he
has instructed the Consul at Charlotte
town, Prince Edwards Island, to take
measurement of the sea at that point,
where the seizures were made, 20 establish
the exact distance from shore.
DIR. Won SCHLOEZER, Prussan Minister
20 tho Vatican, has presented TO the Pope
nm eSquisitely wrought miter, adorned
with rubies, diamonds, sapphres and
egocralds, and accompanied by an auto
graph letter from the Emperor of Germany,
rendering the hejeweled offering as his
jubilee gift to the Holy Father.
TIE Ohio State Republican convention
nominated the following ticket on the 2Sth:
Governor, J. E. Foraker, renOminated; /;
ACKNOWLEDGMENT w C.. Lyon; supreme
Judges, LONG term, VIM. T. Spear; short
term, +. j. Dickmau; Auditor, L.. w. Poe:
Attorney-General, ID. *. Watson; Member
Of Board of Public Works,C. A. Flickinger;
Treasurer, John G. Brown.
GENERAL BCULANGER's challenge for
auel has been sent To n. Ferry.
JoHN BaIGHT eNhorts the electors OF
ilridgeton 70 vote against George Otto
srevelyan for Parliament.
SECRETARY WHITNEY announces that a
contract has been entered into with the
Hotchkiss Ordnance Company which in
sures the establishment of a branch of that
concern in this country.
The Shah of Persia viii start in April
next upon six months tour OF the indus
trial centers of Europe.
JUDGE DENIS QUINN, of the Supreme
Court OF New York City, died 40 Saratoga
on the 29th, aged ffty-seven years.
Prince LOUIS of Battenberg has been
appointed commander OF the British iron
rlad Breadnaught, over the heads Of scores
of seniors. Lt is expected that the R0di-
calls viii criticise the appointment in Par
lament.
REVEREND MOTHER SUPERIOR M. b.
LYNCH died at the Ursuiine convent in
Columbia, $. e., the night of the 2sth.
The deceased was the Grst mother superior
OF Usuline nuns i'm the South, having be-
come a nun in Cincinnati in 1887.
THE President has come 70 the conclu-
tion that ne can easily answer a writ
zen invitation 20 visit a city as he can re-
zpond 70 long speeches Of visiting delega-
ions conveying such invitations. and he
mas begged the Memphis citizens, who
threatened a descent ON the White House,
not TO make it,
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
SHERIFF SMITH arrested Andrew Hamil-
ton. alias Dick Crayton. at Baker City,
Ore, on the 25th, for murder committed
n Pike County, H., in 1875. The arrest
Yves made en- the requisition from Governor
Ogleshy.
\
I'd with a freight train south az Foxbury,
IA killina w. y. Jones. of Pittsburgh,